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snarge en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /snɑː(ɹ)dʒ/

Etymology

Blend of snot + garbage.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) The remains of a bird after it has collided with an airplane (in a bird strike), especially a turbine engine.
    • Arriving mostly in sealed plastic bags, these included birds’ feet, whole feathers or tiny bits of down, and pulverized bird guts, known as snarge. 2009 January 25, Matthew L. Wald, “Identifying the Bird After a Strike, When Not Much Bird Is Left”, in New York Times:
    • Snarge can be a wad of a Canada goose lodged inside an airplane engine. Or it can be a broken and burned gull feather littered along the runway. Snarge can even be as small as a rusty-red smear on the nose of an airliner. But no matter what form it takes, every bit of snarge is different — and all snarge is important. 2022 April 14, Jason Bittel, “‘Snarge’ Happens, and Studying It Makes Your Flight Safer”, in New York Times, archived from the original on 14 Apr 2022: